fleck of dirt

That fleck of dirt is all one can think about.

It's like getting a fleck of dirt in your eye.

For example, a fleck of dirt might connect two lines that should not be connected.

He was cat-clean, never a fleck of dirt under his polished nails.

The last fleck of dirt suddenly fell away.

"You know, the French have a term for these young vegetables," he said, scrubbing flecks of dirt from the roots under running water.

Every member of it seemed to crave attention, and to fear for the least fleck of dirt in the vicinity.

A fleck of dirt,' Billy said.

Opposite the dial a semicircular section swung out, spraying flecks of dirt into his face, and cold water gushed forth.

Both her palms dripped with neon-red blood, the scrapes peppered with little black flecks of dirt.

And once its gone and the pain stops, one doesn't care where that fleck of dirt went, does one?' '

He carried out a calm, careful inspection of the fortifications, reprimanding one gunner mildly for flecks of dirt in a gun barrel.

His eyes were wild, and his teeth were bared in a knotted grimace, despite the flecks of dirt and filth that spotted his lips.

If the thread should happen to touch anything while it was still wet, it would pick up flecks of dirt just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

It was like dreaming of buffalo, this dream of men running across playing fields, their cleats throwing up flecks of dirt, their breath wild and hard and free.

The whole operation took about twenty minutes and left the bare carcass lying on its skin with only a few flecks of dirt and bits of grass marring its marbled surface.

'So,' Souness said, after a while, pulling the rear-view over to check her face, removing a little fleck of dirt from the corner of her eye, 'where does that put us now?'

Liz tried desperately to get her mind off this, thinking she was either hallucinating or going crazy, and she began picking the flecks of dirt off her roller blades, centering all her attention on that task.

He looked from one to another of us without any great concern, and then his attention dropped to his own hands as he idly scratched some flecks of dirt off one of his fingers with his thumb.